In Peru, an Indigenous Group Fights to Protect Land from Drug Traffickers and Deforestation

Yale e360
Mar 11, 2021, 3:44 pm327 pts
The Santa Martha territory of Peru is experiencing unprecedented deforestation as drug traffickers and land grabbers encroach. Owned by the Indigenous Cacataibo community, a majority of this 14,485-hectare territory had been officially preserved as forestland. But traffickers have been illegally occupying and…

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